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Book Reviews

Winter 1960

Eric Bentley’s Classics

By Lionel Abel

The Classic Theatre, Vol. I: Six Italian Plays edited by Eric Bentley. Doubleday Anchor Books, Doubleday & Co., 1958, $I.25 The Classic Theatre, Vol. II: Five German Plays edited by […]

Book Reviews

Summer 1959

Virile Sophistication

By Lionel Abel

The Tradition Of The New by Harold Rosenberg. Horizon Press. $4.95.   One very good thing about New York: an intelligent man is talkatively at large, in this city, expressing […]